The new year draws near, and there are several things I'd like to do to finish on a good note ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving vacation is over and I'm back to work and looking forward to a December without interruptions. Technically -- we still need to put the house back into order after yesterday's carpet cleaning. That will probably take a good week or so as we do early (extremely early) spring cleaning.

Project: Sacrifices
New Words: 500
Present Total Word Count: 4,250 words
Goal: 125,000 words

Things Accomplished in Fiction: Smoothed out some setting descriptions. Worked out how to write from a dog's viewpoint and create a pack mentality.

One complaint I heard from the UWG on Monday was how the pacing seemed too fast. I know part of that is due ( Read more... )

Project: Sacrifices
New Words: 1,250
Present Total Word Count: 2,750 words
Goal: 125,000 words

Things Accomplished in Fiction: One of the things I enjoy about writing is the opportunity to research odd topics. Today's ranged from dog anatomy to lawn mowers ( Read more... )

Accomplishing this evening's tasks, and looking forward to Wednesday's planned attack on the remaining pages in chapter two and (perhaps) tackling the beginning of chapter three.*

Watching the latest episode of The Biggest Loser, which I taped on the DVR so I could finish Tuesday's scheduled workout. Lower body circuit with lots of front lunge ( Read more... )

I missed Sunday's workout, as youngest daughter held a sleepover for Halloween and the girls camped out downstairs in the living room to watch movies. Volleyball tryouts ran long and left me exhausted (mostly mentally). Yesterday's phone problems at work, combined with the UWG meeting in the evening, kept me from knocking out Sunday's planned ( Read more... )

Today is the 25th anniversary of the first date Melissa and I took back in college. So, I've got to observe that my life is good. Twenty-two years married and counting, twenty-five years together and counting. It doesn't seem as if we've been together that long, and that's a good thing and a bad thing. Time flies, as you

Project: Sacrifices
New Words: 750
Present Total Word Count: 1,500 words
Goal: 125,000 words

Things Accomplished in Fiction: I finished the first chapter this morning. The de Lint-King combo seems to work. Character introduction, feral dog attack, hints at strange behavior. Next chapters should flow from this point forward. I hope to get one more ( Read more... )

Yesterday's hectic schedule and late dinner made me choose to skip my Sunday workout. I made excuses, because I felt stuffed from the salad and risotto shrimp I had at Olive Garden ( Read more... )

As an addendum to #2 in the previous post, where I noted how it's necessary for me to perform the exercises correctly, for me to slow down, it's best if I don't directly watch the Jillian avatar ( Read more... )